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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantiers%20et%20Ateliers%20Augustin%20Normand
Chantiers et Ateliers A. Normand was a French shipyard in Le Havre. They were notable for building small warships in the early part of the 20th century. They also developed the Normand boiler, an early design of three-drum water-tube boiler. Shipyards of France Le Havre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20Now
Access Now is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 with a mission to defend and extend the digital civil rights of people around the world. Access Now supports programs including an annual conference on Human Rights (RightsCon), an index of internet shutdowns (#KeepItOn), and providing exit nodes for Tor network....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise%20Point%20Positioning
Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning method that calculates very precise positions, with errors as small as a few centimeters under good conditions. PPP is a combination of several relatively sophisticated GNSS position refinement techniques that can be used with ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebID
WebID is a method for internet services and members to know who they are communicating with. The WebID specifications define a set of editor's drafts to prepare the process of standardization for identity, identification and authentication on HTTP-based networks. WebID-based protocols (Solid OIDC, WebID-TLS, WebID-TLS+...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20semantics
In computer science, having value semantics (also value-type semantics or copy-by-value semantics) means for an object that only its value counts, not its identity. Immutable objects have value semantics trivially, and in the presence of mutation, an object with value semantics can only be uniquely-referenced at any po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenna%20%28networking%29
Ravenna is a technology for real-time transport of audio and other media data over IP networks. Ravenna was introduced on September 10, 2010 at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. Ravenna can operate on most existing network infrastructures using standard networking technology. Performance and capac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Data%20Management%20Interface
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is a SNIA standard that specifies a protocol for self-provisioning, administering and accessing cloud storage. CDMI defines RESTful HTTP operations for assessing the capabilities of the cloud storage system, allocating and accessing containers and objects, managing users and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Haberman
Alan Haberman (July 27, 1929 in Worcester, Massachusetts – June 12, 2011 in Newton, Massachusetts) was an American supermarket executive who is credited with popularizing the use of the barcode in commerce internationally. Haberman was a founder and board member of the Uniform Code Council. He graduated from Harvard C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20M.%20Myers
Richard M. Myers (born March 24, 1954) is an American geneticist and biochemist known for his work on the Human Genome Project (HGP). The National Human Genome Research Institute says the HGP “[gave] the world a resource of detailed information about the structure, organization and function of the complete set of human...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20Theory%3A%20An%20Approach%20Through%20History%20from%20Hammurapi%20to%20Legendre
Number Theory: An Approach Through History from Hammurapi to Legendre is a book on the history of number theory, written by André Weil and published in 1984. The book reviews over three millennia of research on numbers but the key focus is on mathematicians from the 17th century to the 19th, in particular, on the work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%20of%2039
The curse of 39, also referred to as triakontenneaphobia, is the fear of the number 39. In some parts of Afghanistan, the number is considered to be cursed or a badge of shame as it is purportedly linked with prostitution. Origin The origin of the superstition is unclear, but it has widely been claimed to have been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20of%20Logic%20Based%20on%20Ordinals
Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals was the PhD dissertation of the mathematician Alan Turing. Turing's thesis is not about a new type of formal logic, nor was he interested in so-called ‘ranked logic’ systems derived from ordinal or relative numbering, in which comparisons can be made between truth-states on the basis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20logic
In mathematics, ordinal logic is a logic associated with an ordinal number by recursively adding elements to a sequence of previous logics. The concept was introduced in 1938 by Alan Turing in his PhD dissertation at Princeton in view of Gödel's incompleteness theorems. While Gödel showed that every logic system suffe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/567-line%20television%20system
The 567-line television system was an experimental late 1940s proposal by Philips of the Netherlands for a European television system, with some test transmissions being made from Eindhoven. The first mention of the system appeared in an article from 1938, published in the Philips' technical bulletin, on a transportab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz%20%C5%81uczak
Tomasz Łuczak (born 13 March 1963 in Poznań) is a Polish mathematician and professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Emory University. His main field of research is combinatorics, specifically discrete structures, such as random graphs, and their chromatic number. Under supervision of Michał Karoński, Łucz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-silent%20system
A fail-silent system is a type of system that either provides the correct service, or provides no service at all (becomes silent). See also Design by contract Fail-fast Fail-safe Fail-stop Fault tolerance References Fault-tolerant computer systems Safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLT%20cocktail
A BLT cocktail is a cocktail made out of the contents of a BLT sandwich, (bacon, lettuce and tomato), blended together with vodka. Variants on the drink include utilizing bacon vodka instead of traditional vodka, substituting liquor for lettuce, incorporating bacon salt, or including cucumber flavored vodka. The drink...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20to%20the%20power%20of%20zero
Zero to the power of zero, denoted by , is a mathematical expression that is either defined as 1 or left undefined, depending on context. In algebra and combinatorics, one typically defines  . In mathematical analysis, the expression is sometimes left undefined. Computer programming languages and software also have d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically%20ordered%20group
In mathematics, a cyclically ordered group is a set with both a group structure and a cyclic order, such that left and right multiplication both preserve the cyclic order. Cyclically ordered groups were first studied in depth by Ladislav Rieger in 1947. They are a generalization of cyclic groups: the infinite cyclic g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20cyclic%20order
In mathematics, a partial cyclic order is a ternary relation that generalizes a cyclic order in the same way that a partial order generalizes a linear order. Definition Over a given set, a partial cyclic order is a ternary relation that is: cyclic, i.e. it is invariant under a cyclic permutation: asymmetric: tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Range
The National Cyber Range is a cyber range project being overseen by DARPA to build a scale model of the Internet that can be used to carry out cyber war games. The project serves as a test range where the military can create antivirus technologies to guard against cyberterrorism and attacks from hackers. Several organ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Computational%20Biology%20Student%20Council
The International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) is a dedicated section of the International Society for Computational Biology created in 2004. It is composed by students from all levels (undergraduates, postgraduates, and postdoctoral researchers) in the fields of bioinformatics and comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20computer
The K computer named for the Japanese word/numeral , meaning 10 quadrillion (1016) was a supercomputer manufactured by Fujitsu, installed at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science campus in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The K computer was based on a distributed memory architecture with over 80,000 comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gard%20model
In evolutionary biology, the GARD (Graded Autocatalysis Replication Domain) model is a general kinetic model for homeostatic-growth and fission of compositional-assemblies, with specific application towards lipids. In the context of abiogenesis, the lipid-world suggests assemblies of simple molecules, such as lipids, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20Crown
Dragon's Crown is a 2013 action role-playing game developed by Vanillaware for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It was published in Japan and North America by Atlus and in PAL regions by NIS America. A high-definition port for PlayStation 4, Dragon's Crown Pro, was released by Atlus in 2018. Players navigate env...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot
In computing, rebooting is the process by which a running computer system is restarted, either intentionally or unintentionally. Reboots can be either a cold reboot (alternatively known as a hard reboot) in which the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again (causing an initial boot of the machine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn%E2%80%93Kreer%E2%80%93Lenssen%20model
The Korn–Kreer–Lenssen model (KKL model) is a discrete trinomial model proposed in 1998 by Ralf Korn, Markus Kreer and Mark Lenssen to model illiquid securities and to value financial derivatives on these. It generalizes the binomial Cox-Ross-Rubinstein model in a natural way as the stock in a given time interval can e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20properties
In evolutionary biology, the variational properties of an organism are those properties relating to the production of variation among its offspring. In a broader sense variational properties include phenotypic plasticity. Variational properties contrast with functional properties. While the functional properties of an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20Laplacian
In mathematics, the infinity Laplace (or -Laplace) operator is a 2nd-order partial differential operator, commonly abbreviated . It is alternately defined by or The first version avoids the singularity which occurs when the gradient vanishes, while the second version is homogeneous of order zero in the gradient. Ver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20Human%20Nutrition%20Research
MRC Human Nutrition Research was the largest research institute in the UK for human nutrition, and was based in Cambridge. History In 1998 MRC Human Nutrition Research (HNR) was formed as a result of the restructuring of the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit following the resignation of Professor Roger Whitehead. The Medical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquet%20module
In mathematics, the Jacquet module is a module used in the study of automorphic representations. The Jacquet functor is the functor that sends a linear representation to its Jacquet module. They are both named after Hervé Jacquet. Definition The Jacquet module J(V) of a representation (π,V) of a group N is the space o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamik%20chemischer%20Vorg%C3%A4nge
In the history of thermodynamics, Thermodynamik chemischer Vorgänge (Chemical thermodynamic process) is a sequence of three papers (1882–1883) written by German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. It is one of the founding papers in thermodynamics, along with Josiah Willard Gibbs's 1876 paper "On the Equilibrium of Hetero...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp%20Hochreiter
Josef "Sepp" Hochreiter (born 14 February 1967) is a German computer scientist. Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz after having led the Institute of Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2018. In 2017 he became the head of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD%20domain
In molecular biology, the BSD domain is an approximately 60-amino-acid-long protein domain named after the BTF2-like transcription factors, synapse-associated proteins and DOS2-like proteins in which it is found. It is also found in several hypothetical proteins. It occurs in one or two copies in a variety of species r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btk-type%20zinc%20finger
In molecular biology, the Btk-type zinc finger or Btk motif (BM) is a conserved zinc-binding motif containing conserved cysteines and a histidine that is present in certain eukaryotic signalling proteins. The motif is named after Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), an enzyme which is essential for B cell maturation in huma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld%20access%20hole
The weld access hole or rat hole is a structural engineering technique in which a part of the web of an I-beam or T-beam is cut out at the end or ends of the beam. The hole in the web allows a welder to weld the flange to another part of the structure with a continuous weld the full width on both top and bottom sides ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20space
Visual space is the experience of space by an aware observer. It is the subjective counterpart of the space of physical objects. There is a long history in philosophy, and later psychology of writings describing visual space, and its relationship to the space of physical objects. A partial list would include René De...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean%20product%20development
Lean product development (LPD) is a lean approach to counter the challenges of product development, notably: Lack of innovative solutions Long development cycle times Many redevelopment cycles High development costs Long production cycle times High production costs See also Design for lean manufacturing Muntzing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20truck
A farm truck is a vehicle designated for agricultural use, and may include anything from small pick-up trucks or even vehicles fashioned out of old parts, to class 8 eighteen-wheeler trucks. Some states in the United States have a special registration for farm trucks that includes restrictions such as distance the vehi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livewire%20%28networking%29
Livewire is an audio-over-IP system created by Axia Audio, a division of Telos Alliance. Its primary purpose is routing and distributing broadcast-quality audio in radio stations. The original Livewire standard was introduced in 2003 and has since been superseded by a second version, Livewire+. Livewire+ includes comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20functor
In mathematical representation theory, a (Zuckerman) translation functor is a functor taking representations of a Lie algebra to representations with a possibly different central character. Translation functors were introduced independently by and . Roughly speaking, the functor is given by taking a tensor product wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer programming, a function or subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit. This unit can then be used in programs wherever that particular task should be performed. Functions may be defined within programs, or separately in libraries that can be used by m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam%27s%20game
Ulam's game, or the Rényi–Ulam game, is a mathematical game similar to the popular game of twenty questions. In Ulam's game, a player attempts to guess an unnamed object or number by asking yes–no questions of another, but one of the answers given may be a lie. introduced the game in a 1961 paper, based on Hungary's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth%20Dimension%20Displays
Forth Dimension Displays (ForthDD) is a British optoelectronics company based in Dalgety Bay, Fife, United Kingdom. Company overview Founded in 1998 as Micropix and known later as CRL Opto and CRLO Displays, ForthDD makes high resolution microdisplays and spatial light modulators (SLM). The microdisplays are used in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching%20circuit%20theory
Switching circuit theory is the mathematical study of the properties of networks of idealized switches. Such networks may be strictly combinational logic, in which their output state is only a function of the present state of their inputs; or may also contain sequential elements, where the present state depends on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20biophysics
Clinical biophysics is that branch of medical science that studies the action process and the effects of non-ionising physical energies utilised for therapeutic purposes. Physical energy can be applied for diagnostic or therapeutic aims. The principle on which clinical biophysics is based are represented by the recog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20Poincar%C3%A9%20duality
In mathematics, the twisted Poincaré duality is a theorem removing the restriction on Poincaré duality to oriented manifolds. The existence of a global orientation is replaced by carrying along local information, by means of a local coefficient system. Twisted Poincaré duality for de Rham cohomology Another version of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear%20decomposition
In graph theory, an ear of an undirected graph G is a path P where the two endpoints of the path may coincide, but where otherwise no repetition of edges or vertices is allowed, so every internal vertex of P has degree two in G. An ear decomposition of an undirected graph G is a partition of its set of edges into a seq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL%20Studio%20Mobile
FL Studio Mobile is a digital audio workstation available for Android, iOS and Windows UWP. The program allows for the creation of complete multi-track music projects, which can then be exported in WAV, MP3 and MIDI formats, to work with other digital audio workstations, or in FLM project format to be opened in FL Stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20factor
The α-factor is used to predict the solid–liquid interface type of a material during solidification. Method According to John E. Gruzleski in his book Microstructure Development During Metalcasting (1996): α = (L/k*TE)*(η/v) where L is latent heat of fusion; k is Boltzmann’s constant; TE is equilibrium freezing tem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%20field
In mathematics, a Hardy field is a field consisting of germs of real-valued functions at infinity that are closed under differentiation. They are named after the English mathematician G. H. Hardy. Definition Initially at least, Hardy fields were defined in terms of germs of real functions at infinity. Specifically ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz%20nondestructive%20evaluation
Terahertz nondestructive evaluation pertains to devices, and techniques of analysis occurring in the terahertz domain of electromagnetic radiation. These devices and techniques evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage. Terahertz imaging Terahertz imaging is an emerging and sig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop%20%28electronics%29
In electronics, flip-flops and latches are circuits that have two stable states that can store state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control inputs and will output its state (often along with its logical complement too). It is the basic s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-MSCP
i-MSCP (internet Multi Server Control Panel) is a software (OSS) for shared hosting environments management on Linux servers. It comes with a large choice of modules for various services such as Apache2, ProFTPd, Dovecot, Courier, Bind9, and can be easily extended through plugins, or listener files using its events-bas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20E.%20Eichler
Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. Education Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20submodule
In the branches of abstract algebra known as ring theory and module theory, each right (resp. left) R-module M has a singular submodule consisting of elements whose annihilators are essential right (resp. left) ideals in R. In set notation it is usually denoted as . For general rings, is a good generalization of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20broom%20topology
In general topology, a branch of mathematics, the integer broom topology is an example of a topology on the so-called integer broom space X. Definition of the integer broom space The integer broom space X is a subset of the plane R2. Assume that the plane is parametrised by polar coordinates. The integer broom conta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%20perception
Form perception is the recognition of visual elements of objects, specifically those to do with shapes, patterns and previously identified important characteristics. An object is perceived by the retina as a two-dimensional image, but the image can vary for the same object in terms of the context with which it is viewe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecke%20algebra%20%28disambiguation%29
In mathematics, a Hecke algebra is classically the algebra of Hecke operators studied by Erich Hecke. It may also refer to one of several algebras (some of which are related to the classical Hecke algebra): Iwahori–Hecke algebra of a Coxeter group. Hecke algebra of a pair (g,K) where g is the Lie algebra of a Lie group...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecke%20algebra%20of%20a%20pair
In mathematical representation theory, the Hecke algebra of a pair (g,K) is an algebra with an approximate identity, whose approximately unital modules are the same as K-finite representations of the pairs (g,K). Here K is a compact subgroup of a Lie group with Lie algebra g. Definition The Hecke algebra of a pair (g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products%20in%20algebraic%20topology
In algebraic topology, several types of products are defined on homological and cohomological theories. The cross product The cap product The slant product The cup product This product can be understood as induced by the exterior product of differential forms in de Rham cohomology. It makes the singular cohomology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklace%20ring
In mathematics, the necklace ring is a ring introduced by to elucidate the multiplicative properties of necklace polynomials. Definition If A is a commutative ring then the necklace ring over A consists of all infinite sequences of elements of A. Addition in the necklace ring is given by pointwise addition of seque...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20ring
In mathematics, a binomial ring is a commutative ring whose additive group is torsion-free and contains all binomial coefficients for x in the ring and n a positive integer. Binomial rings were introduced by . showed that binomial rings are essentially the same as λ-rings for which all Adams operations are the ident...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20dimension
A reference dimension is a dimension on an engineering drawing provided for information only. Reference dimensions are provided for a variety of reasons and are often an accumulation of other dimensions that are defined elsewhere (e.g. on the drawing or other related documentation). These dimensions may also be used fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20pair%20%28order%20theory%29
In order theory, a discipline within mathematics, a critical pair is a pair of elements in a partially ordered set that are incomparable but that could be made comparable without requiring any other changes to the partial order. Formally, let be a partially ordered set. Then a critical pair is an ordered pair of ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha%20numerals
Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, has two numeral systems, one vigesimal (base 20), and a modern decimal system. The vigesimal system remains in robust use. Ten is an auxiliary base: the -teens are formed with ten and the numerals 1–9. Ex. cu_ci Vigesimal *When it appears on its own, 'ten' is usually said '...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale%20Moon
Pale Moon is an open-source web browser with an emphasis on customization; its motto is "Your browser, Your way". There are official releases for Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, and Linux, as well as contributed builds for various platforms. Pale Moon originated as a fork of Firefox, but has subsequently diverged. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani%20numerals
Like many Indo-Aryan languages, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) has a decimal numeral system that is contracted to the extent that nearly every number 1–99 is irregular, and needs to be memorized as a separate numeral. Numbers from 100 up are more regular. There are numerals for 100, sau; 1,000, hazār; and successive multiple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Ergo
The A Ergo is a stand-in stacker forklift truck pioneered by the Swedish truck manufacturing company Atlet AB. When Atlet was founded in 1958, the truck market consisted of many types of trucks including the reach trucks. In 1961, to improve handling efficiency and safety, Atlet AB launched the stand-in stacker as the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20M1000e
The Dell blade server products are built around their M1000e enclosure that can hold their server blades, an embedded EqualLogic iSCSI storage area network and I/O modules including Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand switches. Enclosure The M1000e fits in a 19-inch rack and is 10 rack units high (44 cm), 17.6" (44...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Levitan
Boris Levitan (7 June 1914 – 4 April 2004) was a mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering. Life Boris Levitan was born in Berdyansk (south-eastern Ukraine), and grew up in Kharkiv. He graduated from Kharkov University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic%20nanoparticle
Ceramic nanoparticle is a type of nanoparticle that is composed of ceramics, which are generally classified as inorganic, heat-resistant, nonmetallic solids that can be made of both metallic and nonmetallic compounds. The material offers unique properties. Macroscale ceramics are brittle and rigid and break upon impact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20point
A test point is a location within an electronic circuit that is used to either monitor the state of the circuitry or to inject test signals. Test points have two primary uses: During manufacturing they are used to verify that a newly assembled device is working correctly. Any equipment that fails this testing is eith...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20digital%20media%20players
A digital media player is a home entertainment consumer electronics device that can connect to a home network to stream digital media (such as music, pictures, or video). Standalone streaming players This list does not include discontinued or legacy media players. Gaming systems Content agreements Internet video s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing%20science
Marketing science is a field that approaches marketing – the understanding of customer needs, and the development of approaches by which they might be fulfilled – predominantly through scientific methods, rather than through tools and techniques common with research in the arts or in humanities. The field of marketin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Lothaire
M. Lothaire is the pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, many of whom were students of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger. The name is used as the author of several of their joint books about combinatorics on words. The group is named for Lothair I. Members Mathematicians in the group have included Jean-Paul Allouche, Je...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle%20algebra
In mathematics, a shuffle algebra is a Hopf algebra with a basis corresponding to words on some set, whose product is given by the shuffle product X ⧢ Y of two words X, Y: the sum of all ways of interlacing them. The interlacing is given by the riffle shuffle permutation. The shuffle algebra on a finite set is the gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZS
DZS is a provider of fiber access and optical telecommunications networking and cloud software technology. The company was founded in 1999. It is headquartered in Plano. DZS is ISO 9001:2008 certified in the manufacture and service of telecommunications equipment. Corporate history DZS was founded as Zhone Technologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Y-chromosome%20haplogroups%20in%20populations%20of%20the%20world
The following articles are lists of human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups found in populations around the world. Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic group Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of Europe Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of the Near East Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of North Africa Y-DNA haplogroups in populations ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Comprehensive%20Operating%20System
Advanced Comprehensive Operating System (ACOS) is a family of mainframe computer operating systems developed by NEC for the Japanese market. It consists of three systems, based on the General Comprehensive Operating System family developed by General Electric, Honeywell, and Bull. Two of these systems, ACOS-2 (based on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20transport%20number
In chemistry, ion transport number, also called the transference number, is the fraction of the total electric current carried in an electrolyte by a given ionic species : Differences in transport number arise from differences in electrical mobility. For example, in an aqueous solution of sodium chloride, less than ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements%20Interchange%20Format
RIF/ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) is an XML file format that can be used to exchange requirements, along with its associated metadata, between software tools from different vendors. The requirements exchange format also defines a workflow for transmitting the status of requirements between partners. Although ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWhiteboard
World Wide Whiteboard is a Web-based online collaboration and conferencing tool designed for use in online education. It was developed by Link-Systems International (LSI), a privately held distance-learning software corporation in Tampa, Florida. The World Wide Whiteboard went online in 1996, under the name NetTutor, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%E2%80%93min%20inequality
In mathematics, the max–min inequality is as follows: For any function When equality holds one says that , , and satisfies a strong max–min property (or a saddle-point property). The example function illustrates that the equality does not hold for every function. A theorem giving conditions on , , and which gu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20cobordism
In mathematics, algebraic cobordism is an analogue of complex cobordism for smooth quasi-projective schemes over a field. It was introduced by . An oriented cohomology theory on the category of smooth quasi-projective schemes Sm over a field k consists of a contravariant functor A* from Sm to commutative graded rings,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20repertoire
The immune repertoire encompasses the different sub-types an organism's immune system makes of immunoglobulins or T-cell receptors. These help recognise pathogens in most vertebrates. The sub-types, all differing slightly from each other, can amount to tens of thousands, or millions in a given organism. Such a wide var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20types%20of%20solar%20cells
For description and history, see Solar cell A solar cell (also called photovoltaic cell or photoelectric cell) is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon. It is a form of photoelectric cell, defi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20lock
Wireless lock is a protection concept for authenticated LAN or WLAN network clients offered from various vendors in various functional shapes and physical designs. In contrast to wireless keys, wireless lock puts emphasis on automatic locking instead of just locking by time-out or unlocking. The wireless lock concept ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20pixel%20link
Automotive pixel link, or APIX, is a serial high speed gigabit multichannel link to interconnect displays, cameras and control units over one single cable targeting automotive applications. APIX2 transmits up to two independent high-resolution real-time video channels and has bidirectional protected data communication ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szarvas%20inscription
The Szarvas inscription refers to the inscription on a bone needle case found near Szarvas in southeastern Hungary and dating from the second half of the 8th century, the "Late Avar" period (700-791). The needle case and its inscription The name of the script of the Szarvas inscription The Hungarian archeologist, his...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Two%20%22Computer%20Generated%202%22%20ident
The Computer Generated 2 was an ident used by BBC2 between 16 June 1979 and 30 March 1986. It was the first computer generated television station identification in the world. Launch The ident package was launched in June 1979. The ident was aired through a solid-state computer device, not unlike the one used later for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto
A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current. Unlike a dynamo, a magneto does not contain a commutator to produce direct current. It is categorized as a form of alternator, although it is usually considered distinct from most other alternators, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20magneto
A telephone magneto is a hand-cranked electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce alternating current from a rotating armature. In early telegraphy, magnetos were used to power instruments, while in telephony they were used to generate electrical current to drive electromechanical ringers in telephone s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScienceLogic
ScienceLogic is a software and service vendor. It produces information technology (IT) management and monitoring software for IT Operations and cloud computing. Product The company's flagship product, SL1, is a singular infrastructure monitoring and AIOps platform that provides operations teams with actionable insig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sono-Seq
Sono-Seq (Sonication of Cross-linked Chromatin Sequencing) is a method in molecular biology used for determining the sequences of those DNA regions in the genome near regions of open chromatin of expressed genes. It is also known as "Input" in the Chip-Seq protocol, since it follows the same steps except it doesn't req...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metulji%20botnet
The Metulji botnet, discovered in June 2011, is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial of service attacks. Before the botnet itself was dismantled, it consisted of over 12 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly Bot", making it, as of June 2011, the largest known botnet. It is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20refrigerator
A smart refrigerator, also known as internet refrigerator, is a refrigerator which is able to communicate with the internet. This kind of refrigerator is often equipped to determine itself whenever a food item needs to be replenished. This still partly done by the human factor the next evolution of smart is the Intell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-to-cloud%20integration
Cloud-to-Cloud Integration ( C2I ) allows users to connect disparate cloud computing platforms. While Paas (Platform as a service) and Saas (Software as a service) continue to gain momentum, different vendors have different implementations for cloud computing, e.g. Database, REST, SOAP API. Another name for Cloud-to-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRE%20%28computing%29
TRE is an open-source library for pattern matching in text, which works like a regular expression engine with the ability to do approximate string matching. It was developed by Ville Laurikari and is distributed under a 2-clause BSD-like license. The library is written in C and provides functions which allow using reg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20disk%20drive%20performance%20characteristics
Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped into two categories: access time and data transfer time (or rate). Access time The access time or response time of a rotating drive is a measure of the time it take...